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New York Times, Monday, October 23, 2000

Author:
Nancy Salomon and Marjorie Berg
Editor:
Will Shortz
35-Down : Work like a dog
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1868/13/199511/7/2012116
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
3633533719611
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
1521.5890833%
Nancy Salomon
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
97/3/200011/14/20053
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
0900000
ScrabDebutFresh
1.573311%
Marjorie Berg

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 61 for Ms. Salomon. This is puzzle # 3 for Ms. Berg. Monday freshness: 23%
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© 2000, The New York Times10/23/0 ( No. 18,612 )
Across
1
Honeydew, e.g. : MELON
6
California wine valley : NAPA
10
Spot for an icicle : EAVE
14
Off to one side : APART
15
Like money to be repaid : OWED
16
Mellowed : AGED
17
Where Port Jefferson is on Long Island : NORTHSHORE
19
Uneven hairdo : SHAG
20
Hosp. area for critical cases : ICU
21
TV's Donahue : PHIL
22
Milan's land : ITALY
23
Scold : CHEWOUT
25
Barbie, for one : DOLL
27
Meadow mother : EWE
28
Spot on a dress? : POLKADOT
32
Clear the blackboard : ERASE
35
Poet Teasdale : SARA
36
Quick letter : NOTE
37
N.F.C. or A.F.C. subgroup : CENTRALDIVISION
40
Force that an astronaut feels on earth : ONEG
41
Milky Way and 3 Musketeers : BARS
42
Dressed to the ___ : NINES
43
Disastrous drop : NOSEDIVE
45
Former Saudi king ___ Saud : IBN
46
Five cents a minute, e.g. : RATE
47
Twist of phrase? : ANAGRAM
51
Mild, as weather : BALMY
54
60's civil rights org. : SNCC
55
Devoured : ATE
56
Marco Polo crossed it : ASIA
57
"M*A*S*H" setting : SOUTHKOREA
60
"I've ___ had!" : BEEN
61
A fisherman may spin one : TALE
62
Actress Tatum : ONEAL
63
"Piece of cake!" : EASY
64
Macho man : STUD
65
1040 and others : FORMS
Down
1
Frenzied : MANIC
2
Notable period : EPOCH
3
Lash ___ of old westerns : LARUE
4
Uneaten morsel : ORT
5
Ultimate degree : NTHPOWER
6
Like a rare baseball game : NOHIT
7
Military no-show : AWOL
8
Part of m.p.h. : PER
9
Fruit drink suffix : ADE
10
Home of Michigan State University : EASTLANSING
11
___ Khan (Muslim leader) : AGHA
12
Calf meat : VEAL
13
Nervously irritable : EDGY
18
Andrew of "Melrose Place" : SHUE
22
Variety : ILK
24
1974 World Cup site : WESTGERMANY
25
With 44-Down, "Que Sera, Sera" singer : DORIS
26
Norwegian king : OLAV
28
Man with a mission : PADRE
29
Bump off : DOIN
30
Oklahoma Indian : OTOE
31
Change for a twenty : TENS
32
Supply-and-demand subj. : ECON
33
Nevada city : RENO
34
Hydrocarbon suffixes : ANES
35
Work like a dog : SLAVE
38
Slightly : ABIT
39
Behind : INBACKOF
44
See 25-Down : DAY
45
Foot division : INCH
47
Chipped in chips : ANTED
48
Harder to find : RARER
49
Mr. T's group : ATEAM
50
Military messes : MEALS
51
Paul Bunyan's ox : BABE
52
On a deck, perhaps : ASEA
53
Untruths : LIES
54
"Star Trek" navigator : SULU
57
Ave. crossers : STS
58
Nibble for Dobbin : OAT
59
Lennon's widow : ONO

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later.

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